I hope some of you find this kinda useful. I have successfully cheated on very well-know trackers for 6 months up to now and I would like to share the rules I have strictly followed to achieve it.
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- 1) Do not start cheating the first day you got into a tracker. Stay legit for some weeks. Instead, go for freeleechs, introduce yourself to the community, post comments, open threads, participate in polls and so on. A member with an insane ratio but 0 posts, 0 comments... is always more suspicious than an integrated an active one.
- 2) Never cheat as a 100% seed on a tracker-exclusive torrent impossible/hardly found outside the tracker. If you do, you must be able to legitimate you got that torrent from outside. Stay away from inner realeases unless you really downloaded them beforehand and could provide proof (be careful with showing creation/modification times on screenshots, instead they can be easily edited).
- 3) For the trackers that register not only ratio but seed time you may want to cheat (or legit) upload a pack of torrents simultaneously and not cheating always only on one. 1TB uploaded on only 1 or 2 torrents, and a seed time of 1 week will just look odd. Just grab some freeleech/low size torrents and leave them uploading at 1kb/s on your real client for some weeks to build a safe seeding time.
- 4) Stay away from "Top10s". You don't want to appear as one of the max uploaders, leechers, highest ratios, with max seeding time... Always try to go with the flow and never stand out.
- 5) Avoid abusing the flashing method, as most of trackers run a simple max upload script which will get you banned in a blink.
- 6) Don't use incremental uploads as weeks go on, as it would be fishy that first week you were uploading at ~100kb/s, next at ~150kb/s, next ~200kb/s...etc (given you are not getting caught), instead see point 13)
- 7) Never use a steady upload/download speed as a whole day uploading at 100.00 kb/s sharp is not a good idea, instead use some loosy ones (with decimals).
- 8) Try to cheat on mostly new torrents with a high amount of peers. Be careful with partial seeders as they will been shown as leechers but they won't produce any download traffic. Also try to stay within a logical range of upload given the torrent and actual peers. Make daily a quick sum of all the download speeds from leechers and upload speeds and never produce an upload higher than, say, 110% the download sum. If a torrent is reporting the tracker a 2MB/s download traffic and the summed upload rate is 3MB/s something is failing and this can be easily cross-checked with a simple script.
- 9) Never cheat to a torrent with 0 leechers (obviously) or even with a low amount of leechers and a high number of seeders if you are using a high upload speed. Try some client features like stopping the traffic generated when the amount of leechers is less than X (RM). This will prevent you as well from reporting upload traffic to a deleted torrent.
- 10) Always use the memory reader option at RM or similar on other clients to fake the most accurately possible the behaviour of a real client. It is always advisable to cheat and leave the torrent client opened in case some staff member wants to connect to you. Never cheat to a tracker while real uploading a torrent to it simultaneously for obvious reasons. You can cross cheat though (cheat at tracker A, legit upload at tracker B).
- 11) Each tracker its own method. Use the waffles method in waffles, use the low&steady in What.CD...etc.
- 12) Deactivate DHT and never publicize your passkey or a torrent downloaded from you with it in for obvious reasons.
- 13) When possible, try to get several accounts -at least two- to experiment methods/new clients emulated/incremental max uploads speeds... with one of them. You must be twice the cautious when browsing the site, and torrenting. It would be advisable to use different networks (wired desktop, and wifi laptop from any neighbour for example) and if possible, different ISPs, browsers and torrent clients.
- 14) Avoid well-known proxies/VPNs/bouncers/etc (Tor, anchorfree...). Be careful with trackers that deal with bans to international IP changes (you are torrenting from Canada and you use a proxy from Russia). Never torrent/cheat from your home and brose the site at the same time under other IP.
- 15) Always stay in the bandwith range from your ISP. Do not use higher uploads/downloads then the max ones available on your ISP. Several trackers deal with ISP bandwiths and know exactly the max upload/download you can be using. It's always a nice idea to state in a forum post/signature your "real" upload/download speed as an image from a speedtest direct link, never upload it to a image server as it would be suspicious to have been modified. You can always grab a fake one from speedtest, as long as it belongs to your real ISP and it's run from a location close to where you live, just run a test, click on direct link and go backwards some numbers from yours to check previous png tests (it will take >10 mins but it only needs to be done once).
- 16) Never use the same string that could get you identified (nick/avatar/password/mail/signature/custom title...etc) on two different trackers. As if you eventually get caught cheating in one, you are very likely to be banned from several as staff share a lot of data (especially cheaters). Obviously, avoid using the same nick on trackers and on trading/cheating forums as staff tend to lurk those type of forums.
- 17) Avoid browsing the tracker site/forum/chat with the same pc/browser you use for visiting sites like sb-i, moofdev, trading communities...etc. Or at least make sure you are using a cookie/history/temporaries clean browser at every time. This can be easily achieved with, for example, Firefox and its "Removing personal data on every application exit" option, using the private navigation tabs since 3.9.5, or using some HTTP blocking plugins that monitor every string sent to the site server.
- 18) Always use the same emulated client on your cheating application as the one you use for real torrenting. Do not use an emulated client for an OS different from the one you use for site browsing. For example, if you use Windows 7 for browsing it is not a good idea to use rTorrent (you can always say you had VMWare/VirtualPC/etc running but it would be extremely odd).
- 19) Always tend to use the latest client emulation version that matches your newest torrent client build. There are some trackers that force you to use the latest build available to date in order to avoid old well-known emulation clients. Never go back from a client/build version to a previous one. Some trackers do register your client history and it would be very fishy that you eventually downgrade from uTorrent 1.8.5 to, say, 1.8.4 just because you found a client that you know for sure it works on that site (always experiment with newer clients with dupe accounts).
- 20) COMMON SENSE.
All the above rules could be summed up in the last one. Go with the flow, don't do stupid/weird/improbable things and you will be done. You will be always smarter than a bunch of php scripts.
PD: Mods please feel free to edit my post as it may contain errors (I am an ESL student)
Have fun :)
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